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Inspirational Quotes by Aldous Huxley

39 Inspirational quotes by Aldous Huxley

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Huxley mixes odd comparisons, like a gramme being better than a damn, with reflections on work as both prayer and stink. He jokes that writing many drafts is just thinking over second thoughts. The quotes also encourage looking at the impossible with childlike innocence.

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Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

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One of the great attractions of patriotism

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Nothing short of everything will really do.

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When the individual feels, the community reels.

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Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.

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God: a gaseous vertebrate.

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A gramme is better than a damn,

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In life, man proposes, God disposes.

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Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

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There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

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But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

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Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

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“... the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.”

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Look with complete innocence at the infinitely improbable thing before you.

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Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

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I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing…

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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

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It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be…

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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness,…

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In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential…

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“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re…

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Civilization is sterilization.

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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

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If you want to write, keep cats.

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In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

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Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

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Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

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We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

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Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

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I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

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It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

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“That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.”

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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

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All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

“What you need is a gramme of soma.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”

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